Logo notas.itmens

Triadic Structure of Being-Becoming

Akin to Peircean Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness.

  • Firstness: Unconscious-Bergsonian continuum. "Prime matter". Syntax.
  • Secondness: Objective-Time. Semantics. continuum. Complete illumination.
  • Thirdness: Free choice sequences. Becoming. Intensionality in the Fregean sense.

Firstness#

Firstness itself is paradoxical; the way it is paradoxical is identical to why prime matter is paradoxical. So that it in some sense needs to be individuated and differentiated once it is thought.

>>"A sequence is Martin-Löf random if and only if no constructive martingale succeeds on it."
>Of course there are many other definitions of Martin-Lof randomness, but the relation between Martin-Lof randomness and contingency is a subtle one. There's no direct relation. What can be said is merely that if a sequence is Martin-Lof random how it looks cannot be predicted by a theory of which the Kolmogorov complexity is lower than the K-complexity of the sequence. Hence it may seem that the sequence is "randomly generated" since there's no description of how it is generated which is simpler than this sequence itself.
>It is highly debatable whether the fact that there's something that is Martin-Lof random can be used to claim that Reality itself is contingently generated. You need to cross that line between epistemology and ontology: you cannot know something means there's no such a thing. This is highly debatable, and it is the whole point that I'm struggling with. And (some) physicists and mathematicians have been struggling with it for a hundred years. 

Let me add something to this line of thought. This line of thought actually gestures towards an "empirical" or "idealistic" process metaphysics: reality is generated by being known by a knowing subject. A knowing subject by knowing the whole generates contradictions and hence dialetheias, which are to be resolved by the generation of reality. The order of knowing is in a complex relation with the objective time-continuum, loosely speaking the past can be generated from the present by abduction. Abduction bestows uncertainty, or better, fuzziness to the generated sectors of reality.

But this knowing subject doesn't seem to be a, say, human being. Human beings are free-choice sequence generators. There also must be a creative subject that comprehends the totality of free-choice sequences.

So far I'm confused. The point is whether to take experience as something primordial, or to take a more "logicist" route.

Thirdness#

The problem with models of self-production such as self-producing automata: it doesn't touch upon thirdness. But tries to form a loop between Firstness and Secondness. This seems to be also the mindset of Lawvere.